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helm-starter

A helm3 plugin for managing helm starters. Helm starters are used by the helm create command to customize the default chart. For example, an Istio starter can create VirtualService and DestinationRule objects, in addition to the standard Service and Deployment objects.

Example helm starters:

• https://github.com/salesforce/helm-starter-istio
• https://github.com/sitewards/helm-chart
• https://github.com/cloud104/helm-starter

Installation

> helm plugin install https://github.com/salesforce/helm-starter.git

Usage

• helm starter fetch GITURL [VERSION]: Clones a bare helm starter repo into $HELM_HOME/starters
• helm starter list: Lists all the starters in $HELM_HOME/starters
• helm starter update NAME [VERSION]: Refresh an installed Helm starter or update to a specific version
• helm starter delete NAME: Delete name from $HELM_HOME/starters
• helm starter inspect NAME: Print out a starter's readme
• helm starter --help: print help

To use a starter, run:

> helm create NAME --starter STARTERNAME

Example

> helm starter fetch https://github.com/salesforce/helm-starter-istio.git
> helm create banana-service --starter helm-starter-istio